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The final, posthumous installment of the ground-breaking Harlem Detectives series, a novel of explosive, apocalyptic violence, and a startling vision ...
Detectives Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones are in the hot seat in one of the most chaotic, brutally funny novels in the groundbreaking Harlem Detecti...
Himes was equally revealing in the many interviews he granted during his long and tumultuous career in America and France....
A Novel
In this knockout standalone crime novel from the acclaimed author of the Harlem Detectives series, a white cop’s murderous outburst leads to a pulse...
From the acclaimed author of the Harlem Detectives series, a brilliant, short novel about a tragic death and a wrongful conviction Spare and powerful,...
The final novel in the trailblazing Harlem Detective series, set in a New York City at boiling point Bawdy and tough-talking, wickedly funny and wanto...
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Letters Between Chester Himes and John A. Williams
A revealing collection of correspondence between Chester Himes and John A. Williams, two prominent twentieth-century African American novelists. Chest...
The night's over for Ulysses Galen. It started going bad for the big Greek when a knife was drawn, then there was an axe, then he was being chased and...
Alberta Wright drops dead on the street during a sermon by the charismatic con man Sweet Prophet. Her partner rushes home to avoid the cops, only to f...
'The greatest find in American crime fiction since Raymond Chandler' Sunday Times Jackson's woman has found him a foolproof way to make money - a tech...
A golden Cadillac big enough to cross the ocean has been seen sailing along the streets of Harlem. A hit-and-run victim's been hit so hard she got emb...
'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect' Daily Telegraph A con-man is swindling the poor folk of...
Two lives spiral into a fatal pas de deux during a weekend of sex, alcohol and violence—from the acclaimed author of the Harlem Detectives series Je...
A sex farce deemed to be Himes's most daring work of fiction. A Banner Book....
Robert Jones is a crew leader in a naval shipyard in Los Angeles in the 1940s. He should have a lot going for him, being educated, with a steady job a...
Offers tips and advice for decorating homes for the holiday season, emphasizing the use of lights, and displays decorated houses from around the count...
The Later Years : the Autobiography of Chester Himes
This second volume in the autobiography of legendary writer Chester Himes talkes the reader into the heart of Paris expatriate cafe society in the 195...
The Autobiography of Chester Himes
The author shares the experiences of his later years as an internationally known writer in Paris' expatriate cafe society...
Big Joe Pullen is dead and his wake is getting boozy. When the opium-addicted Reverend Short falls out of a window trying to see a thief fleeing the r...
From the acclaimed author of the Harlem Detectives series, a masterful autobiographical novel about the injustices of the prison system and the humani...
Jackson, trusting and besotted with his girlfriend, Imabelle, scrapes his hard-earned savings together in a scheme to triple his money. But it all goe...
Baby Sister and Selected Writings
This story of a man living every day in fear of his life for simply being black is as powerful today as it was when it was first published in 1947. Th...
In this gripping installment of the maverick Harlem Detectives series, Coffin Ed Johnson and Gravedigger Jones investigate a series of seemingly unrel...
"A white undercover cop vents his rage and starts a cycle of violence from which there is no escape. Walker, one of New York's embittered policemen, i...
Offers a look at the author's early life in the Black ghetto and his later literary success...
Investigating two separate cases during a long hot summer in New York City, Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, two Black police detectives, enc...
A novel
A friend and contemporary of Richard Wright and James Baldwin - and every bit their equal - Chester Himes was the acclaimed author of literary novels,...
A classic of African-American fiction, Chester Himes's tale of a young black man who becomes a union organizer during WWII examines major problems in ...
Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, two Black police detectives working in Harlem, investigate a case involving an albino giant and three millio...
Goldy, Jackson's crafty twin brother, tries to help Jackson recover his life savings from the con man who cheated him....
Jackson est le gars le plus candide d'Harlem, pour ne pas dire demeuré. Et dans le coin, il y a un tas de dégourdis qui commencent par lui étouffer...